Manual cross-posting to Threads and more manton.org

@manton That’s helpful!

@manton this is really good — great innovative approach!

@manton and this STILL ain't the upgrade of ages™️ we've been waiting on baited breath for? You have been a very, very busy beaver my friend.

@manton Very nice addition!

Also, that last sentence made me break out in a cold sweat. Another one of those "people forget the absolute size of Micro.blog" moments.

@manton If it weren't for micro.blog, I wouldn't even try to participate in Threads or Bluesky, but you make it so easy. Might as well.

@manton Great addition. So effectively, we can disable auto-crosspost and then manually crosspost at any time, right? If I post at 1 pm and manually crosspost at 5 pm, what will be the timestamp on the other platform?

@pratik The new feature does not use the old date, so it’ll be the current time. It’s quite different so that we can support Threads. The help page has some of the other limitations.

@manton That’s actually a feature for me coz I can do it later 😌

@amerpie nothing will make me participate in Threads. Because: Meta. Second: when they will be serious about Fediverse, I'll revisit my stand. But I'm happy to see that Micro.blog is getting ready for that day. cc @manton

@numericcitizen @amerpie Definitely no pressure to use other platforms! I stopped using Threads month ago because I thought federation was just around the corner, but now it looks like it will be much later this year.

@manton Cool interim step while we wait on (supposed) federation.

Looks like there is an issue in memoji conversion. I get the “?” icon on threads until I edit back to the emoji.

@manton Manual cross-posting! That is great. I’ve silently wished for this feature. Thank you.

@manton This sounds great and jibes with my own style nowadays. I’m increasingly preferring manual cross-posting to achieve native formats. I’m looking forward to trying this out. Thanks!

@manton This is really useful, thank you. Will you be adding other services supported in auto-crossposting here too such as Medium and LinkedIn?

@moonmehta Yes, I’ll probably add LinkedIn next, and then continue until it supports all of them.

@manton Thanks!

@manton BTW I don’t see the Tumblr or Twitter options in the crossposting on the Posts page.

@manton This is great and something I've been looking for. Many thanks!

@manton only for Threads or is this a revamp of cross-posting for all connected channels?

@manton This is great!

@manton this is pretty cool, thanks! My only suggestion is to hide the button for draft and scheduled posts.

@manton I just tried it to cross post to X and it works perfectly. For me this works better than automatic cross posting to X since I've greatly reduced my participation there. I'm being more selective but occasionally I need to go on a snark strafing run on X and this makes it easier. :-)

@bradenslen Great, glad it worked so well!

@otaviocc Good idea, I'll make that change.

@KimberlyHirsh Thanks!

@rmdes It's a separate feature that does not affect the existing cross-posting at all. Right now supports Threads, Mastodon, Tumblr, Bluesky, and Twitter X.

@jonah I'll look into that. I haven't heard of anything in Substack to allow it, but I might've missed it.

@manton just tried this out - PERFECT implementation! thank you 🙏

@jhull Thank you!

@manton marvellous. Looking forward to LinkedIn - I do find the automatic cross posting pretty wild so I turned that one off. But that’s more LinkedIn I feel.

@manton Oop! I just used the manual cross-post to Bluesky and it dropped the alt text on an image on transfer. (Automatic crossposting, which I usually use, keeps the alt text in place.)

@darby3 Ah, you're right. I'll figure out how to preserve that, thanks.